Daily God's offer #3 : Therefore encourage one another and build each other up.

Friday. After the previous night I had been in a frenzy of celebration, I got some sad news. One of my best friends from Wanakumbara, Desi Sylvia passed away. I will write about her in another special post. So I'll continue writing my activities first.

Reluctantly going anywhere today, I had to walk because I got a call from a courier to receive a package. I have no idea on it. Because I didn't buy anything online nor did I have any friends who said they would send something. After I received it, it turned out to be a package from my lil sister who has been studying in Malaysia since May 11. She had the opportunity to be involved in a student exchange.

The contents were various. Most of them were snacks that don't exist in Indonesia, as well as typical fabrics from Malaysia with notes from her. Even though I sent her money for her to survive there, she spent this on me instead. Well... But I accepted it as her remembrance of me. It made me smile after the sudden sadness.

She's posing in front of Sultan Zainal Abidin University.

Twin tower

After Friday praying, I didn't go anywhere. I was really exhausted because the previous event took until midnight. I took a nap until late afternoon. Trying to still have a fruitful day I went to school to water my plants. The paper flowers, Bougenville were blooming more and more...

Saturday, May 20. Ten days after the day of my birth, I am still working at several places. Today I worked with Mr. Rais at Sukamanah Mid-High.

To pass the time before the performance, I asked Rayi Nugraha a few questions about the traditional Sundanese flute known as Suling. This young student at ISBI Bandung is indeed a multi-instrumentalist.

But for a long time I was not good at Aerophone instruments. I gave up on that this time hehe. 

Today's first performance was done. I moved on to the second venue because Mr. Asep asked me to help. Sukamanah-Cipasung took about 20 minutes to reach. I actually made it with injury time to Cipasung. But this second performance also went well.

I met my college teacher, KH Abdul Chobir, MT. He is one of the Kyai I admire too. Especially after KH Abun passed away, perhaps he was the one who always reminded me of goodness. Since he came from Tulungagung, he knew Gus Mus. He was also the one who made my communication smooth when I visited Gus Mus during the Safari Sastra Tour.

The other person I met today was a friend of my father's, a man I already considered like my own uncle. Uncle Lili, people call him Mr. Uder. He is a soundsystem service entrepreneur. A professional soundman and sound engineer. He declare that he learned all the 'sounds' from my father. From then on he always treated me well. Whenever I play the violin, and he sets it up, it never sounds bad. He is truly an expert in this field.

Today's activities are over. But I couldn't go home because I didn't have a vehicle. So I asked my father to pick me up. Then there was another meeting.

My father met Mr. Dedi. This Mr. Dedi is his childhood, mid to highschool friend even until now. I already considered him as my uncle as well,

Another interesting thing was that Uncle Dedi's son, Zaki Jauhari was not far from me as age. We are also very close. It's like continuing the friendships in the next generation.

Towards evening I took a short break. Fahmi, my friend invited me to meet him, but he didn't come until 8 pm. Finally I cleaned up a bit and wrote in the sharing space, in front of the room where I usually work. I intended to write an obituary about my best friend Desi Sylvia tonight.

It's been a long day. But I'm grateful to be useful today.